Web scraping API reviews
Browse web scraping API reviews for founders building agents, enrichment, and data tools. Filter by price, output, and features. Each one has a Huzzler Score, Best for, and Skip if.
Vincent Edes · Founder & reviewer
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Last updated September 3, 2026
Context.dev
Best for brand dataA hosted web scraping and brand-intelligence API that returns Markdown, JSON, and company data from a URL or domain.
Firecrawl
Best for AI agentsAn open-source scraping and crawling API that turns websites into Markdown and structured data for AI agents.
ScrapingBee
A classic web scraping API with headless Chrome, rotating proxies, and credit multipliers for JavaScript and stealth.
Apify
A web scraping and browser-automation platform with a store of Actors, billed in compute units and proxies.
ScraperAPI
A proxy and JavaScript-rendering scraping API with published per-domain credit costs for hard sites.
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How we compare
We review web scraping APIs by hand to help founders choose the right data extraction service for their agents and background pipelines. Every product in this catalog includes an independent verdict that highlights practical strengths and limitations, ensuring you choose the tool that fits your technical requirements rather than the one with the loudest marketing.
How each review is made
- Open the official site, docs, and current pricing tiers, including how credits are spent on scrape, crawl, JavaScript rendering, and premium proxies.
- Verify what the API actually returns: Markdown, HTML, screenshots, structured JSON, brand data, or a marketplace of scrapers.
- Read the public docs for anti-bot handling, SDKs, MCP, and whether a self-hosted edition exists.
- Read recent founder and buyer feedback and note repeated praise or complaints about credit burn and blocked sites.
- Form an original verdict: Our take, pros and cons, Best for, and Skip if, and name the concrete tradeoffs.
- Set a Huzzler Score per dimension, explain each score, and update last reviewed when we re-check the API.
Huzzler Score
Huzzler Score is an editorial rating out of 5. We score five dimensions, then average them.
- Features: Scraping, crawling, extraction, search, and extras such as brand data or a marketplace
- Reliability: JavaScript rendering, anti-bot handling, and whether failed requests are billed
- Value: What a credit actually buys, including hidden multipliers and overage
- Docs & SDKs: Documentation quality, official SDKs, and how easy the API is to integrate
- Ease of use: How quickly you can go from a URL to usable Markdown or JSON
What we check on every web scraping API
- What a successful page scrape costs in credits
- JavaScript rendering and anti-bot handling
- Markdown, JSON, and screenshot output
- Crawling, search, and schema extraction
- Official SDKs, MCP, and documentation
- Free tier, overage, and whether failed requests are billed
- Self-host option versus hosted-only
Some links in our reviews are affiliate or referral links. If you purchase through them, Huzzler may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We check pricing and features manually before we publish.
Frequently asked questions
What is a web scraping API?
A web scraping API is a hosted service that fetches a URL for you and returns the page as HTML, Markdown, a screenshot, or structured JSON. The provider handles browsers, proxies, and bot challenges so you do not have to run that infrastructure yourself.
How does Huzzler compare web scraping APIs?
A Huzzler reviewer opens the product docs and current pricing, checks what a credit actually costs on real endpoints, and writes an original verdict with pros, cons, Best for, and Skip if. Each API also gets a Huzzler Score: the average of Features, Reliability, Value, Docs & SDKs, and Ease of use.
Which web scraping API is best for AI agents?
If your workflow primarily requires clean Markdown, recursive crawling, and live web search for language models or autonomous agents, Firecrawl is generally the most capable option to evaluate first. If your product also requires company logos, brand color schemes, and domain intelligence, Context.dev combines web extraction and company enrichment within a single subscription.
What does the Huzzler Score mean?
It is our editorial rating out of 5. We score Features, Reliability, Value, Docs & SDKs, and Ease of use separately, then average them.
Is this a ranked best-of list?
No. This is the full catalog. Filter by price, output format, and capabilities. Ranked shortlists, such as Firecrawl alternatives, are separate guides.